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title: Then said all who saw it it booted not to seek another man, they wer… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said all who saw it it booted not to seek another man, they were well assured 'twas their guest had slain him. Who acts: whit. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 32

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Then said all who saw it it booted not to seek another man, they were well assured 'twas their guest had slain him.

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**Who acts:** whit · **What happens:** say, see, boot, not seek, assure, slay · **To what, where:** whit, man, guest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8447:6:32
# text = Then said all who saw it it booted not to seek another man, they were well assured 'twas their guest had slain him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	booted	boot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	assured	assure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | past |  | whit |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **boot** | past | whit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **seek** | to-infinitive | whit *not said here* | another man |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 5 | **assure** | past · passive |  | man |  |  |  | well *property* | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **slay** | past · perfect · passive |  | man's guest |  |  |  | twas *obl*; host *obj* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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